I hope y'all are doing swimmingly in college or in preparation for it. It has indeed been a very, very long time.
I hope everyone is still reading. :[
I'm sitting in my room at Cornell, doing some homework after breakfast. It's cryptology - a course I'm taking to get out of a math requirement, and it's still kicking my butt. I feel like I might have been better off just taking a regular math class rather than a kind-of-a-math-class. Oh well.
My other classes are Tonal Theory I, Musicianship I, British Literature: Animals, Monsters, and Aliens, Dance Technique I (<- this is for a PE requirement. =.=), and Intro to Acting. My favorite is Tonal Theory- the professor is British and he's a very, very charming man. :] I like listening to him talk. I also like watching him bounce back and forth between the piano and the computer. He's a very lively man who's clearly in love with his subject. I love learning from people like him.
In other news, I don't know if Cornell is the place for me.
I know I want to get into performance, and if I want to go through with this, then I feel like I should transfer out to the city, or at least to LA. I don't know what to do...I've only been here for a few weeks. I want to talk to a professor or two and the dean but I feel kind of awkward doing that. "Hey, I just got into your school and I want to go somewhere else. Can you help me?" For some reason I don't think the dean will like that very much.
I also figure that I should start putting together a portfolio of monologues and songs/pieces that I know how to do/sing/play. If I do end up applying to another school, preferably a performing school, then they'll certainly look for that.
Any advice, ladies? :[
I miss all of you.
I miss having Wendy as my roommate. I think I'm realizing more and more now what a special bond the four of us had, how lucky we were to find each other and to bond so quickly and tightly in just the first few days. I don't really have that here. My roommate is a graduate student (don't ask...it's a long, looooong story) and my friends are all so busy that I really only see them if I call them or text them to go eat. :/ I wish I had a best friend here.
It's kind of like that with my family. I think that you miss something most when you don't have it anymore. For the first week and a half I missed my Mom so much that I couldn't take a call or a text from her without starting to cry. Things are a lot better now, but just a few days ago, they weren't that great.
But I got into a singing group on campus. :] Everyone is very welcoming and quirky. I think all of the guys except for two are gay. Maybe three. I lose count. Anywhoo, I think it's a group of people I will come to love, given some time.
I'll give a shoutout if I can ever make the bus to NYC. I miss you and love you all very, very much. I hope you're all having a wonderful time, wherever you are. I love you.
<3, Yeana
